Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLEIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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